Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast

We've got a bit of a departure for you today. I was ready to start a new series for the new month of July, but I have had a thought running around my head over the last month that I can't shake, and I thought, "I'm going to talk about it on the podcast." I will leave it at that, so you can hear what it is when you listen.

As always, I am so grateful to all of you who support the podcast! I do this show because of you. While I enjoy ...

We finish up a short series that we started two weeks ago on the concept of Kindness. I have done four quotes each of these weeks on how impactful simply being kind to one another can be for a team (or any other groups or individuals).

As always, I am so grateful to all of you who support the podcast! I do this show because of you. While I enjoy the quotes myself, I do this podcast because many of you who are looking for inspiration...

We continue a short series that we started last week on the concept of Kindness. I am doing four (or more) quotes each of these weeks on how impactful simply being kind to one another can be for a team (or any other groups or individuals).

As always, I am so grateful to all of you who support the podcast! I do this show because of you. While I enjoy the quotes myself, I do this podcast because many of you who are looking for inspira...

We continue the month of June with an episode that starts off a short series of quotes on the concept of Kindness. With the month of June being one without a lot of choices in terms of heritages or other concepts that we celebrate, I decided to do some random episodes. 

The last couple of episodes were devoted to quotes from my gift book for graduates called "Inspiration for the Graduate." The book focuses on 10 team themes, wi...

We continue the month of June with an episode devoted to quotes from my gift book for graduates called "Inspiration for the Graduate." I wrote it as a gift book for me to give to my graduating senior athletes whom I coached. Pretty soon after I wrote it, though, I had other coaches wanting to give it to their graduates, too, so I turned it into a book to sell. It has been my bestselling book by far.

The book focuses on 10 team theme...

We kick off the month of June with an episode devoted to quotes from my gift book for graduates called "Inspiration for the Graduate." I wrote it as a gift book for me to give to my graduating senior athletes whom I coached. Pretty soon after I wrote it, though, I had other coaches wanting to give it to their graduates, too, so I turned it into a book to sell. It has been my bestselling book by far.

The book focuses on 10 team theme...

Happy Memorial Day! (Not sure if we are supposed to say that since it is a day to honor those who gave their lives in service of our country, but I just said it.)

Today, we finish up with our theme of Diversity & Inclusion that we have been exploring for the month of May. With there being so many different groups being celebrated in May, I thought it would be good to talk about quotes that deal with these concepts. 

As alway...

We continue with our theme for the month of May of Diversity & Inclusion. With there being so many different groups being celebrated in May, I thought it would be good to talk about quotes that deal with these concepts. 

Also, as I told you a couple of weeks ago, I am going back to doing one episode per week, instead of three, for the foreseeable future. It works better in my schedule, and I believe it will allow me to keep...

We continue with our theme for the month of May of Diversity & Inclusion. With there being so many different groups being celebrated in May, I thought it would be good to talk about quotes that deal with these concepts. 

Also, as I told you last week, I am going back to doing one episode per week, instead of three, for the foreseeable future. It works better in my schedule, and I believe it will allow me to keep the quotes ...

We kick off a new theme for the month of May. With there being so many different groups being celebrated in May, I thought it would be good to talk about quotes that deal with the concept of Diversity & Inclusion. 

I am going back to doing one episode per week, instead of three, for the foreseeable future. It works better in my schedule, and I believe it will allow me to keep the quotes fresh, so I don't have to start reusi...

April flowers bring May flowers!

We kick off the month of May with this episode of The Great Quotes for Coaches podcast landing on May 1st. Therefore, I thought I would do quotes about spring since today is May Day, which was traditionally a day celebrating what was looked on as the first day of spring.

As always, I am so grateful to all of you who support the podcast! I do this show because of you. While I enjoy the quotes myself, I...

It's just a game!

With this being National Poetry Month, I have been reading and talking about poems that I find particularly powerful, inspirational, and meaningful. Today, we wrap up our series of poems with another great one for those of you who coach or play(ed) sports. It's focused on the line that we've all heard (and may have said), "It's just a game!"

As always, I am so grateful to all of you who support the podcast! I do thi...

With this being National Poetry Month, I have been reading and talking about poems that I find particularly powerful, inspirational, and meaningful. Today, I have another great one for those of you who coach, but it is also powerful for anyone. Also, there is some controversy or who wrote it, and it is known as two different poems by two different people, even though the poem is the same poem! Hmm. What a mystery!

As always, I am so...

With this being National Poetry Month, I have been reading and talking about poems that I find particularly powerful, inspirational, and meaningful. Today, I have a great one for those of you who coach, but it is also powerful for anyone. 

As always, I am so grateful to all of you who support the podcast! I do this show because of you. While I enjoy the quotes myself, I do this podcast because many of you who are looking for in...

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

That quote by Henry David Thoreau is a glimpse into what you will hear on today's episode. We take a departure from the poems we have been doing for National Poetry Month to honor Earth Day today. The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970. It started out as an event held here in the USA, but it has grown to be celebrated and honored in over 190 countries, with over 1 billion people obs...

"While fighting for his country, he lost an arm and was suddenly afraid:"

This line opens the poem, "A Man" by Nina Cassian. The rest of the poem is the man's initial reaction to his loss and then the amazing transformation that he underwent because of it. I have always found it to be an inspirational and impactful poem about the potential that we have for overcoming the impossible if we just attack our lives with extraordinary enth...

"Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay..."

This line indicates one of the key themes in the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman. With this being National Poetry Month, I am reading and talking about poems that I find particularly powerful, inspirational, and meaningful, so today I am talking about this poem. Monday, I started with "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, and Wednesday, I tal...

"If you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

These lines begin the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. The entire poem is a series of "if" lines and concepts, all talking about the many trials and tribulations we will be faced with as we go through life, and culminating in two lines to show what is waiting for us if we handle all of the "ifs" in the right way. There are so many great quotable l...

"Two roads diverged in a wood..."

We move to a new theme today, one that is based on this being National Poetry Month. I am going to read and talk about poems that I find particularly powerful, inspirational, and meaningful. I will do this for this week and probably for the rest of the month.

I start with my favorite poet, Robert Frost, and what is probably his most famous poem, "The Road Not Taken." It is so good with so many great ...